Comments on: Retailers Happy With Black Friday Turnout

Major Chains Say Early-Morning Bargains Lured In Bigger Crowds Than A Year Ago

[trillion1]

"Mania" is an excellent word to discribe this story since ''mania'' is a form of insanity. I think most Americans are more concerned with the money for future gas, food, and heating bills than they are about Christmas junk. I''m not saying we won''t shop this season (mostly on line)but we are steering clear of all the electronics. Not just because it''s made cheaply in China but because we don''t NEED it. Is someone so stupid they have to have GPS to know where they are. (Maps were invented centuries ago and hey, they still work.) Well, if they are at a store at 4 a.m. perhaps they are.

[klingon69]

I have been in retail more years than not. I always dread Black Friday, as The company doesn''t stock us with enough products that they advertise. A ZUNE was advertised, and we had 2 in our store, of course they were gone in the first 15 minutes, so now the customers are cursing at us. As a manager, I am required to work from 5a - 10p (17 hrs), since I am salary. Unfortuneately, our store also has specials on Saturday, and this year they want us to open on Saturday the same time as Friday.
However, the one thing that customers do that really chafes is during regular times, they come in at 5 minutes or less until closing, and want to do something that takes around 20-30 minutes to do(ie:activating a cell phone).

[panhandlpete]

Is this economy great or what? Do we remember the decidor saying...."everything is doing well, the GDP is up, unemployment is down as more jobs have been created and the stock market is doing great........"

T,ain''t so people. From the above report, one can see that the rich ARE doing well, but middle and lower income folks are starting to feel the pain........and it is only the beginning.

Greed drives us all....retailers want to up their profits, buyers want to feel they save a few dollars. Sorry retailers, but this year I am refraining from buying during December as I am SAVING for that cold day in February. By then, we may have some idea who will be leading this country out of this mess!

[reel-crazy]

It''s amazing how many people bow to their corporate masters this time of year.

Seeing greedy China-Mart open with a jammed parking lot of idiots on Thanksgiving Day was pathetic at best, too. What happened to America and it''s values on one of two holidays that ALL stores used to be closed? I hold sitting around my dysfunctional family quite sacred.

Retailers are going to have a rude awakening next week, however, after this one day buying frenzy is over and you slaves snap back to reality....

[ichabod57]

Like many others, I just plan on staying home on "Black Friday". I dislike crowds. Most of my shopping will be done online, and most of it toward the middle of December.

What''s the rush?

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by USAyesterday

Thanks for the well wishes, same to you and yours.

While not an official public holiday here, it can be seen and felt in all the TV shows, marketing, and ads for turkey sales, and the nine yards, the beginning of the Christmas holiday shopping season. Many take leave from work, and it is usually granted. The Christmas lights and decorations displayed on the main shopping drag, Orchard road, rivals anything seen in New York, or any major US city, enough electric power to drive Santa Monica, Ca, and probably can be seen from space.

Yes, the beginning of the Christmas shopping season is here, Christmas songs in all the shopping malls and restaurants, balls out, the whole ten yards. It is all pervasive, and can even be felt in majority Muslim Indonesia, just a little more subdued.

[sageprophet]

RON PAUL TAKES-ON FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee Chairman, Congressman Ron Paul on November 8th, and had to face some tough criticism concerning the fact that the Fed has been increasing the money supply while at the same time refusing to raise the Prime Interest Rate in order to curb inflation and devaluation of the Dollar. Paul accused the Federal Reserve of "robbery," telling Bernanke, "There''s a dollar crisis out there and people''s money is being stolen," Paul said. "People who have saved, they''re being robbed. I mean, if you have a devaluation of the dollar at 10 percent, people have been robbed of 10 percent." Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke attempted to dispel that notion by explaining, "If somebody has their wealth in dollars and they''re going to buy consumer goods in dollars, then the only effect it has on their buying power is that it makes imported goods more expensive." Paul disagreed, reminding Bernanke, "Yeah, but not if you''re elderly and you have your wealth in CDs. Their cost of living is going-up no matter what your CPI says," adding finally, "Their cost of living is going up, and they''re hurting. And that''s why the people of this country are very upset."

[consumercare]

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[trillion1]

I am so sick of the Ron Paul @rap showing up everywhere. And I like the guy. I think this year retailers and the goverment are in for a shock. With the cost of gas, food and home heating rising unchecked, the costs of medical and drugs, the houseing collaspe and taxes Americans are at the breaking point.

[beehive21-2009]

Very illogical.

[edward1975-2009]

Just what we need a bunch of half-boozed up people driving to shopping malls. What retailers couldn''t wait till tomorrow to kick off the busiest shopping day of the year.

[yongamerica]

Ron Paul is known to serve Megatron in his evil plot to enslave mankind. Ron Paul has taken to calling himself Starscream. He is considered dumb and dangerous.

[rgscott1]

First most retailors work 7/14 days to prep for the term Black Friday, they do not make but6/7 dollars an hour, then they do not get to have a family life so that some cheap retailor and a even cheaper customer who does not have a life nor a family, can save a few dollars vs the priceles time you can and should spend with your families. Then when they get their the 2 items the store advoed do not have it, so you start cussing and yelling at some mom or dad who has been required to be at the store since 2 or 3 or 12(so stores do not have to pay overtime or nothing if you are salary)and then forget what the day really stands for. So let us do what you cheap customers really want to be open 24/7 never closed and giving everthing away and what ever retailor really wants for you to drop all pride, religous beliefs, family time and spend every dollar you have so that stockholders and highend management at corporate offices can have a big bonus $100,000.and more, and forget what the events of thanksgiving and Christmas are really about, life, family,thankfulness, Christ. O well they are just another day!

[jetranger7]

Haaa, getting up at 3am or 5am, just to go "Shopping", Seems awful Ignorant to me, what a Joke ! If thats all they got to think about and worry about,no wonder this country is in the shape its in. People have actually lost all their scruples, and so have the Ignorant Retail Corporate Executives, its not about providing services to their customers anymore, its about how their Stock Price on Wall Street, as to weather they "Think" it''ll meet their so called "PROJECTED" Financial forecasts and over-inflated Visions of profit !! I really feel sorry for the Employees who have to endure the Ignorance and Stupidity of Corporate Managements ideas of being there at some store at midnight or 3am, while the Executives are home in their "WARM-COZY" Beds next to a Fireplace with their Wives and kids, while they''ve brain washed their workers into getting up to gin at such Stupid Hours for something this Silly and absurd !

[sageprophet]

RON PAUL TAKES-ON FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee Chairman, Congressman Ron Paul on November 8th, and had to face some tough criticism concerning the fact that the Fed has been increasing the money supply while at the same time refusing to raise the Prime Interest Rate in order to curb inflation and devaluation of the Dollar. Paul accused the Federal Reserve of "robbery," telling Bernanke, "There''s a dollar crisis out there and people''s money is being stolen," Paul said. "People who have saved, they''re being robbed. I mean, if you have a devaluation of the dollar at 10 percent, people have been robbed of 10 percent." Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke attempted to dispel that notion by explaining, "If somebody has their wealth in dollars and they''re going to buy consumer goods in dollars, then the only effect it has on their buying power is that it makes imported goods more expensive." Paul disagreed, reminding Bernanke, "Yeah, but not if you''re elderly and you have your wealth in CDs. Their cost of living is going-up no matter what your CPI says," adding finally, "Their cost of living is going up, and they''re hurting. And that''s why the people of this country are very upset."

[sageprophet]

RON PAUL IS THE TAXPAYER''S BEST FRIEND
If he is elected President, Ron Paul will work to abolish the Federal Reserve System as well as the IRS, returning our country to the Gold Standard. He believes, as I do, that our current Income Tax System is unconstitutional, because it is a direct tax that is not equally apportioned as The Constitution requires. Whenever taxes are raised by the federal government, it should be done as The Constitution does require--in an indirect way, which is equally apportioned. This system would benefit all of us, creating more individual wealth, and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives. As President, Ron Paul will also work to abolish the Federal Reserve, a group of private banks, run by unelected officials, which loans our government unbacked money which they are allowed to essentially print out of thin air, making each dollar in your pocket worth less all the time, and increasing our national debt to these banks. Worse still. Most of our debt is owned by China (25%) and Saudi Arabia who finance our runaway military spending overseas. This is a threat to our nation. We need to bring our troops home from overseas, and use the trillions we would save thereby to reduce our debt, and to re-invigorate our currency. We can use this money to ensure that Social Security and other essential programs will still be solvent in the future. Vote for Ron Paul. He''s published three books on the topic of sound economics. ronpaullibrary.org

[sageprophet]

HOPE FOR AMERICA: PRESIDENT RON PAUL

-- No more meddling in other country''s political affairs
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas
-- No more torture prisons
-- No more pseudo-wars like the "War on Drugs"
-- No more IRS and unconstitutional income taxes
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more erosion of Social Security to pay for militarization
-- No more U.N. (one world government) participation
-- No more NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO or GATT (globalist trade cartels)
-- No more North American Union (loss of U.S. sovereignty)
-- No more federal gun control laws
-- No more illegal aliens pouring-in over our country''s borders
-- No more illegal aliens allowed to roam freely in our streets
-- No more national ID cards (Real ID Act)
-- No more government invasion of your privacy
-- No more federal Laws which force you to take unwanted injections
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
-- No more unlimited federal government

They don''t call him "Dr. No" for no reason. The Doctor is in! Find-out what CBS hides from you, and join us in this 21st Century political revolution at ronpaul2008.com

"Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine

"Ron Paul doesn''t represent your Father''s school of political thought. He represents your Founding Fathers."
- Me

[rohink-2009]

Happy Thanksgiving....... I''m thankful to be living in the United States of America.

[usayesterday]

For all others, enjoy the vacation time and use it to get closer to your family, and enjoy a few days of peace.

And go out and support live music.

I know, I know...

Posted by brianbwb at 11:32 PM : Nov 22, 2007
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WHAT? ARE YOU INSANE?!!!

YOU CRAZY SOCIALIST!


(just kidding... but you know that''s what jowand, singinrick, and some others are thinking)!

:-)

BTW, do you celebrate Thanksgiving over in Singapore? I know Thanksgiving is a national holiday for the U.S. however. But if you do or not...

Happy Thanksgiving Brian.

[hissteps4u]

Certainly for the few who get in line days early they are the benefactors of the great sales the rest of those crazy people get what they can.

I found sales this year where I got all my shoping done before Thanksgiving and just as good a deal as standing in line at 3am so I am passing it up this year and for ever.

As a Business Man the extra expense of adjusting for the sales and the cost involved and the cost of the goods using lost leader items is not a good idea anymore when you consider the expenses particularly this year when the cost is skyrocketing and fuel is huge and getting worse